American culture, the American dream, and inflation anchor a wide-ranging conversation that starts at a semi-annual gathering of the Philadelphia Society — the forum founded in 1964 by William F. Buckley, Milton Friedman, and a third founder the episode recalls as Finney — and ends on Idaho’s own fights over schools, taxes, and the size […]
Three subjects anchor this episode: the Proposition 1 abortion measure on Idaho’s November ballot, a Charlie Kirk memorial held on the Capitol steps, and a working economics lesson on whether new technology destroys jobs. On Proposition 1, the episode makes the case that the measure would push Idaho’s abortion law past where it stood before […]
Idaho’s Proposition 1 is the through-line of this episode. The discussion frames the abortion ballot measure as a crossroads for the state and warns that complacency, not public opinion, is the real danger in a pro-life state. It points to targeted voter-registration mail — the episode’s account of an Idaho Democrat Party mailer sent to […]
This episode opens with a bone to pick: a federal plan the discussion says would reprocess fuel rods at the INL and accept a third of the nation’s radioactive waste, atop the Snake River Aquifer. The episode recounts the 1950–1983 era of liquefied waste injected into the ground that reached the aquifer, invokes Three Mile […]
This episode opens with Idaho’s flock camera fight, tracing the pushback to a grassroots watchdog group going city council by city council across the state. The core objection is framed as a Fourth Amendment problem — license-plate data sitting in a searchable government database without a warrant — and the episode notes Caldwell’s roughly half-million-dollar […]
Idaho Prop 1 lands on the ballot the first Tuesday of November, and this episode opens its issue roundup there. The episode’s case is that the initiative would roll Idaho’s abortion law back further than it stood before the Dobbs decision — later into pregnancy, without parental notification or consent for minors, and performed by […]
This episode delivers a fast-moving conservative read on the stories shaping Idaho right now, moving from local government accountability to statewide ballot fights before turning to a longer lesson in free-market economics. The through-line is a familiar one for the show: where Idaho’s money, rights, and values are most at stake — and where the […]
The abortion initiative headed for Idaho’s ballot leads this week’s episode. Per the announcement cited from Secretary of State Phil McGrain, the measure to re-legalize abortion has enough signatures and is expected to appear as Proposition 1. The episode frames the next 100 days as all hands on deck to defeat it, citing figures that […]
This episode uses classic supply-and-demand economics as a lens on the policy fights shaping Idaho, moving from an abortion measure likely bound for the November ballot into a working tutorial on how markets actually set prices—and what happens when government tries to override them. The economics segment builds from the ground up: the law of […]
0:01 A Clearer Way to See Policy The episode opens by trading the week’s political complaints for a teaching segment that promises to trace what policies actually do, rather than how they appear on the surface. It sets up the hour’s wager: that the economics behind everyday political fights is far more understandable than it’s […]
This episode is a wide-ranging conservative tour of the Idaho fights shaping the cycle, moving from the classroom to the state budget to City Hall. It opens on education — stalled teacher contracts, the state superintendent’s traveling listening sessions, and the first year of Idaho’s school choice program and education tax credit — and treats […]
This episode is a wide-ranging conservative survey of the Idaho fights shaping the current political cycle — a tour through immigration, education, the state budget, and a coming abortion ballot measure, framed around a single question: who is really paying, and who is really benefiting. It opens on illegal immigration and public safety before making […]